Less than two weeks after clearing its first committee hurdle, an Indiana House iGaming measure has been declared dead for 2025 after failing to receive support in a second House committee stop.
Rep. Ethan Manning, the primary sponsor of House Bill 1432, had shepherded it through an initial stop in Indiana's House Committee on Public Policy on a near-unanimous vote. It was a short-lived victory, however. According to the Indiana Capital Chronicle, HB 1432 has been shelved without being scheduled for another hearing, this time before the House Ways and Means Committee, where the measure had been forwarded.
House Speaker Todd Huston confirmed the bill's demise in the committee charged with its financial and fiscal considerations. Huston told the Chronicle that the bill had "a lot of moving parts" and that there was a lack of consensus among would-be stakeholders. He added that one Indiana casino already expressed its opposition to the bill.
Fast start but multiple failures for 2025 iGaming bills
While 2025 has seen the introduction or announcement of iGaming bills in eight different US states, it's also seen quick defeats in several of those states as well, including in Virginia and Wyoming.
For Indiana, it's a defeat several times over, as Rep. Manning and other legislators have introduced broad online-gambling measures over most of the last decade.
Despite Manning's avowal that iGaming could add as much as $300 million annually to the state's revenue coffers, the topic, for now, remains too divisive to advance, despite the support of Indiana's Hoosier Lottery, which would like to match neighboring Illinois in authorizing the online sale of lottery tickets.
